Chapter 41 A Few Fateful Misunderstandings.

Hand in hand Lili and Aileen walked through the quite sizable back yard forest of Aileens home. Or well according to Aileen this was apparently just a part of their castle gardens.

Lili wanted to ask her more about what she meant by castle gardens, but soon the trees and bushes ended, a small path of stone began and a castle of white could be seen ahead.

They seemed to be at some side entrance to the castle, as the door here was small, but nonetheless the castle looked quite magnificent. The walls seemed to be made of pure marble like everything else in the city, up high the top roofs of the castle were pointy and blue. And there on one of the tops she could see a red flag. In the center of the flag there was a dragon of gold who was breathing fire and had its long tail wrapped around a golden sword.

Seeing it Lili couldn't help but say out loud.

"Wow, that's cool."

Sure it wasn't a super complicated of a design, but it certainly won against most flag designs of the modern world. Crosses, stars or stripes without anything else added there just wasn't all that cool in her mind. A true flag in her mind needed a symbol, like this symbol of a dragon.

Then the flag went out of sight as Aileen pushed open the door and dragged Lili into the castle. And there she saw that the interior walls and floors were also made of white marble with a red carpet on top of the floor. Also there was a big armoured guard standing there close to the door.

This guard like in the city had a halberd in hand and a sword at his side. He was also quite tall looking and had his whole body covered in armour. His shoulder pads were quite big, his helmet had a small T-shape visor which didn't leave much of his face to be seen. Then lastly he had quite a beautiful red cape with a fur lining on top of it.

To Lili the guard looked like a mountain of metal who amazingly immediately went to stand at attention when he spotted Aileen. Then as they came in closer the man did a military salute and said nothing as they passed.

To Lili this felt somehow quite awkward, she had never actually been in the military herself so she wasn't used to such things. If she remembered correctly Frank had said something about him serving in the military once as something special, but she couldn't quite remember.

And, so as they passed the man Lili awkwardly decided to wave a hello to the man as she also said.

"Hello, I'm Lili it's nice to meet you."

Immediately Lili felt the guards seemingly questioning gaze land upon her which made her flinch and quickly look away.

Why did she just say that, honestly she didn't know, but saying it made her immediately regret it. Just now she probably looked like such a childish fool for saying that, plus the waving of the hand was quite awkward. She just couldn't help it, this whole situation was just so awkward and embarrassing for her.

Lili felt that she was so out of place here, she knew nothing about the etiquette here, plus her wet and basically naked appearance was definitely not suited for a high class place like this. Just the thought of all of this made her cheeks reddened in embarrassment.

Unconsciously her free hand took a hold of her long ponytail and started twirling it around her finger as she nervously hung her head low.

Not only was she feeling so underdressed for this occasion, but she also had no idea what she was going to say in the coming situation. What was she going to say to Aileens mother, Lili wondered. How could she possibly impress the woman and get the job or was the job already hers? Surely not, right? Surely she had to basically do a job interview and maybe a background check or something like that before getting hired here, right?

While lost in her own thoughts, Lili was pulled along by Aileen through many short and long hallways, then they came to a big hall with many doors leading to it and in the center of the hall there was a beautiful wide staircase covered by a red carpet. Above the staircase on the wall there was a massive painting of a group of knights standing upon many boats as they faced down a massive sea serpent on the open sea. On both sides of the sea there was land to be seen there. On one side behind the serpent the land was dark and shrouded in a thick fog while on the other side there was the light of the sun shining on fields of wheat. But most notable there seemed to be one, large and distinct knight standing at the head of the ship closest to the massive sea serpent. His body was large in comparison to the other knights, as was his sword as well. The man also had beautiful golden blonde hair like Aileen did and he also had quite a handsome face almost as good as Art had, almost.

But her admiration of the painting was short lived as she was quickly dragged up the stairs and into a long hall from where they turned right.

Along the way she managed to gather the attention of many young and old maids who were all dressed in fine black and white maid outfits. All around whispers and gasps could be heard, but Lili failed to take note of this as she was either mesmerized by the things she saw or too embarrassed to look anyone in their eyes. And Aileen on the other hand seemingly didn't care about anyone standing around looking at them as she just happily dragged Lili by her small dainty hand.

Then they finally came to a stop in front of some red double doors and a scary looking old guard that was standing in front of the doors. This man had a serious expression on his face as he stood in front of the door blocking their access inside. The man's long hair and beard were gray just like his old hazy looking eyes that were looking at Lili intensely. Unlike the guards before, this one had no helmet and no halberd, instead he had a sword at his side which he was tightly holding onto as he looked at Lili and then back to Aileen.

Seeing this Aileen was first to speak as she said.

"Move it John, I wish to speak to mother."

Looking up at this John fellow Lili couldn't help but get a sense of awesomeness off of the man. Not only was he quite tall and muscular looking for his age, but he also had a real air of authority around him. The man seemed Like someone that deserved respect as he most likely had seen quite a few things in his long life.

Then John spoke up in an extremely deep tone of voice as he spoke with what sounded like annoyance as he said.

"My apologies miss, but there will be no visitors allowed at this time. The queen is feeling quite unwell as you know. And there especially will not be any commoners allowed in the queen's presence at this time."

After saying this his gaze immediately landed upon Lili, clearly implying that the harsh words were meant for her. In response Lilis gaze immediately fell to her feet as she unconsciously covered her chest with her one free hand. She honestly couldn't blame the man for his harshness.

She didn't belong here, especially not as she was now. Her appearance must have been quite distasteful to look at, despite her natural beauty, seeing as she was dressed in her skimpy and wet slave clothes with an old patched up cloak on her back, plus her hair was all wet and she probably still smelt like the sewers.

Lili couldn't help but feel immensely ashamed of her self. Obviously this was not a place meant for her, she definitely wasn't qualified enough to be in such a nice place. This was basically just reality coming to put her in her rightful place, which definitely wasn't here. She probably should just think herself lucky if she even got a single job in the city to begin with. How could she as a nobody and as a weak child hope to even get such a job here right from the start.

Right now Lili just wanted to humbly lay her head down low and apologize for her intrusion here and then quickly run away and go hide somewhere.

While Lili was lost in her own rambling thoughts Aileen puffed up her chest and looked at the tall man with determination as she said.

"Sir John, I think your mistaken. I didn't ask for your opinion on if you would want to let us in or not. No, I ordered you to move, so move. Right now. You know that you have no right to stop me from seeing my mother even if she is feeling under the weather."

Still Sir John didn't move as he once more looked down upon Lili and said.

"Indeed, you may see your mother, but the commoner cannot. Who knows what kind of filthy diseases she may be carrying."

Aileen now suddenly let go of Lilis hand and then with both her hands she pulled Lili by her shoulders right in front of herself. With hands upon Lilis shoulders and her back against Aileens belly, Aileen then said.

"Seriously John, just look at this girl. Does she look like some regular commoner to you? And besides she saved mister bear from drowning in the lake so she's perfectly clean and doesn't even smell bad at all."

Lili herself was still lost in thought and feeling extremely uncomfortable being in the presence of these two people.

John inspectingly looked her up and down as Aileen then said.

"See, nothing dangerous to bee seen here. She's perfectly healthy and clean. Now let us both pass."

After saying this Aileen pushed Lili a bit forward closer to Ser John, but the man didn't move. Instead his eyes landed upon Lilis developing breasts as he said.

"Halt, not so fast."

Seeing this Aileen seemed outraged. But Lili who was now back in reality seemed to understand what was going on as she noticed the old man's gaze upon her breasts. Aileen on the other hand continued to be outraged as she said.

"Oh my god. John you pervert, how dare you so brazenly look at a young girls breasts?"

Sir John didn't respond to this as he instead looked to Lili and said.

"Girl, what is it that you hide there? Show it to me now or do I have to take it out myself?"

Looking at her own breasts, Lili quickly realised that the light stone hidden there was still faintly emitting some light through her cleavage, and it seemed that this guards eyes were keen and had amazingly managed to spot the faint glow.

Immediately as Lili had realised this her admiration and respect towards the man grew many points. Truly this was a guard that took his job seriously as he was able to spot such a small detail in between her breasts, he must have been studying her body quite sharply with those old eyes of his. A true guard worthy of his job.

And so without a second thought Lili slightly pulled down her top to reveal more of her breasts, as she then parted them slightly to reveal the stone hidden in between there. Seeing this Aileen let go of Lilis shoulders, gasped in shock, placed her hands upon her gaping mouth and said.

"Wa WA what are you doing Lili."

Ser John on the other seemed to widen his eyes and slightly open his mouth in amazement as he said nothing and kept on looking.

Lili herself just felt a bit amused at the two people's reactions. In the bright hallway the light wasn't even all that visible and the stone itself wasn't all that beautiful compared to mister bears ruby eyes for example, but for whatever reason these two seemed quite shocked. Maybe a stone emitting a light was just that amazing, she reasoned to herself as she then took out the stone and offered it to the man.

But as she did so the mans face was suddenly slapped hard by Aileen. He seemed to be completely taken by surprise as he fell to the side with a hard tud.

The sight of this completely took Lili off guard as she unconsciously let out a small scream.

"Kyaahh."

Then her top was pulled back up by Aileen who quickly pushed open the doors to the room and shoved Lili inside as she said.

"Feel free to speak to mother while I have a few words with Ser John, ok."

Nodding her head obediently, Lili didn't even dare to say anything to this scary girl anymore. Not only were her words, strength and size scary, but now she was even acting so violently. Truly girls were unpredictable and scary.

Then a sweet, but weak voice came from behind Lili as it said.

"Who are you child?"

Turning around Lili noticed a beautiful bedroom before herself and a massive king-sized bed unlike anything she had ever seen before in this world. The bed even had its own curtains and there on the bed behind the curtains there she saw a woman. Not just any woman, but a mature woman in her early fourties, a true Milf as some would say.

Just Like Aileen her hair was a golden blonde, her eyes a shining light blue which was quite pleasing to Lilis eyes. Her face seemed gentle, sweet and quite motherly, but sweaty. The woman although pretty seemed a bit pale, sweaty and sickly overall as she lay under the blankets.

But even from under the blankets Lili couldn't help but take note of the visible mounds there. It seemed that this woman was packing quite a nice pair of milkers. But why was she so sickly looking Lili wondered.

To see such a beautiful woman in such a poor state made Lili feel quite concerned and sad as she then answered her question by saying.

"I'm Lili."

The woman's face then suddenly seemed to turn to pity as she looked at Lili. Being conscious of this Lili couldn't help but feel ashamed again. Was her appearance truly that displeasing she wondered as she hung her head low in shame and said.

"I'm sorry for the disturbance. I I didn't mean to be a bother to you, it's just that, mmm well."

Before she could say any more the woman pushed herself up into a sitting position against the bed headboard and said.

"Please child, do not apologize. You have done nothing wrong. Instead please come here and let me have a better look at you."

Hearing this Lili felt a bit hesitant to do as the woman had said. She wasn't sure if she could trust the womans words, maybe the woman was just trying to be nice to her, but in reality the woman probably hated her, but it wasn't like she was in a position right now to refuse anything these people told her to do.

And so she kept her gaze low and cautiously approached the woman's bed side, all the while listening to any further orders. But nothing more was said as she then came to the bed side right next to her and then the woman reached out towards Lili.

She couldn't feel any hostility from the woman, but she still stiffened in anticipation of what was about to come. Then the woman slid her arms under Lilis arm pits which made Lili close her eyes and shiver in fear. But she didn't dare to do anything to resist the woman, and so, as if she weighed nothing, she was easily lifted into the air and brought on to the womans lap.

Surprised by this Lili couldn't help but open her eyes. Then she watched as the woman made her lay her head upon her massive breast. The things were extremely warm, soft and squishy. They made her want to just closer her eyes and snuggle up against them, but no, surely she couldn't do that. Then the woman pulled on the blankets next to her and covered Lili up in them.

Now Lili was like a little rabbit covered in blankets with only her head visible as she looked cautiously at this woman. Despite her sickly, but gentle appearance, Lili could also feel great strength inside of her, much like Aileen but a lot more. Plus the woman looked absolutely huge compared to her. She must have been over 180 centimetres tall at least.

Nonetheless Lili couldn't help but start to feel at ease in the woman's lap as the woman then gently started to pat her head as she said.

"Oh, you poor baby. You're absolutely soaked through. We will have to get you out of those clothes and dried up fast before you catch a cold."

Now Lili felt quite embarrassed at the woman's words as she looked down in embarrassment and started rambling out some words as she said.

"No please, you dont need to do that. You see I'm actually quite warm naturally. Like even in winter times I'm capable of staying quite warm even without shoes or any winter clothes. At most I will start shivering and sneezing, but I don't really get sick or anything like that. So it's fine really.

I can see that you're quite a nice person, but please you shouldnt bother yourself with my presence. I assure you that I can take care of myself just like I always have."

After saying this Lili put on a brave smile and showed it off to the woman to prove her point. But to Lilis surprise the woman didn't seem convinced at all as she suddenly gave Lili a warm hug and said.

"Ooh you poor little thing. I see why it is now that my daughter brought you to me, well dont you worry about anything. From now on I will personally make sure that you're taken care of."

Hearing the woman's response confused Lili greatly. Why was she suddenly being pitied like so. She didn't need any help, she was fine on her own like she had always been. Why wasn't this woman convinced by her words?

In her past life whenever she felt down or found herself in a tight spot, people either ignored her or then asked. Are you ok, to which she always said, yeah don't worry about it I'm ok. Then that was pretty much the end of it always. Never once had people actually in her past cared of her struggles, they merely asked because that was what they were thought to do, but no one ever bothered to take that step to actually come and really help her. Possibly the only person who ever had given her any type of real support in the past was Frank. The dude even sometimes went as far as to pay her rent which was really nice. But why was she now getting such a strange reaction from this woman who was a complete stranger to her, this she couldn't understand.

Lili wanted to protest and say that she was fine, but with her head now buried in the womans massive breasts she found it hard to say anything.

Then from the doorway came Aileens voice as she spoke almost as if complaining.

"But, mother I wanted her to become my personal maid. Wouldn't that be a lot better than sending her away to some orphanage."

Lili had no idea when Aileen had entered the room, but her words made Lili feel distressed. She definitely didn't want to go to an orphanage she had already seen enough of those in her past life and besides she needed money, there were people counting on her to succeed in this.

Hearing this the woman went quiet for a moment, then she released Lili from her breasts and looked to Lili while saying.

"Hmm, what do you think child, would you like to be a maid?"

Looking at Aileen and then to the older woman Lili could see that the two of them seemed quite serious about this matter. This made Lili once more feel taken aback, did she just get offered the job just like that. She couldn't believe it and she didn't, she figured there must have been something more to this as she then hesitantly said.

"Mmm, sure."

After saying this the woman smiled lightly, looked to Aileen and then back to Lili. After which to Lilis great confusion the woman then opened up the blankets and took a long inspecting look at Lilis body. Then she simply nodded in satisfaction, but her face turned to sadness as she said.

"Hmm, I see. Well, there's just something I would like to ask you first before we can proceed any further. Now if you don't want to answer, then you don't have to. But just know that it's quite important that you answer truthfully, ok."

Hearing this Lili felt quite worried. It seemed that her guess was right, there was more to this than there first seemed to be. In many job interviews there was usually some super important question that decided it if she was going to be hired or not. The same thing seemed to be true even here. Now the problem just was that she didn't even know who was hiring her or what she would be doing and so she probably didn't know the answer to whatever question she was about to be asked.

All Lili could do was be herself and honest like she always was, if that wasn't good enough for these people then so be it. And with this in mind Lili nodded her head and seriously said.

"Don't worry I would never lie to you or anyone else, that's not something that I ever do. I'm not a liar."

Then the woman brushed some of Lilis loose hair away, patted her on her head and looked into her eyes as she said.

"Ok, Lili I understand that your life is that of hardship, and I know its probably not easy for you to talk about and you don't have to. All I want to know is are you still pure? Now if not then its very important that you tell me when it happened and how?"

Hearing this Lilis thoughts immediately went back to the tree and its pure white core of light. Compared to her core she seemed so tainted and impure. For a long time now ever since she was enslaved by the Kane brothers her mind had started to gradually gather more and more negative thoughts. And so sadly she could not say that she was pure.

Sure she wanted the job, but if purity was what it needed then that was sadly not something she had.

Thinking of this made Lili feel deeply ashamed of herself. A few tiers came to her bright deep blue eyes as she hung her head low and softly said.

"I'm sorry, I'm not pure."

Lili wanted to say more, to explain herself and the other part of the woman's question, but she couldn't hold her tiers of shame any longer and so she started to cry.

Immediately she could hear Aileen and the older woman gasp at her words. The woman pulled Lili into a hug and Aileen could be heard running to the bedside as she too came to give Lili a hug as the both of them started to comfort Lili by saying, it's ok.

Unknown to Lili her words were heard also by the old guard who had been keeping the door slightly open as he listened to all their words. Even he, with all his years of life experience couldn't help but gasp in horror at her words.

Now all three females were full of tears in the room. Then the woman pulled slightly away from the hug as she once more looked into Lilis tiery eyes. Now the woman seemed really mad for some reason which made Lili tier up even more, but the woman didn't yell at her or anything, she held her anger in check as she said.

"I know its hard, but please Lili tell me who was it and when? How old were you?"

Now Lili felt completely lost at the womans words. She wanted to say that it was the Kane brothers, but now she was being asked such specific questions. She didn't know any of their names and so Lili blurted out a confused answer.

"I, I I'm not sure. I think it was when I was 6 winters old."

Immediately gasps of horror much louder than before could be heard. The door slammed open to everyones surprise and the old guard John ran to the bed side. He went to one knee and then with fury in his eyes said.

"Who was it? Who was the bastard that dared sleep with you? Tell me and I swear that I will hunt the bastard down and kill him."

Hearing this Lili now was not only confused, scared but also horrified. And to her even greater horror Aileen and the woman seemed even madder now than what they had been before. Lili couldn't understand why everyone was looking at her so fiercely, was being pure such a big thing to these people, was a man and a woman sleeping next to each other considered also an impure thing here.

If sleeping next to a person of the other sex was considered impure and punishable by death, then was she about to be killed by these three, they sure as hell seemed ready to kill someone. Somehow she had to make all this right and try to apologise for her sins, maybe she would then be forgiven.

Tiers fell down Lilis eyes as she looked at the three people around her and closed her eyes as she started to plead her case to them.

"Please don't, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do it and I'm sure Robin he also didn't know. Its just that the night was a bit cold and Robin simply wanted to make me feel comfortable and warm. And after that we kept sleeping together for a total of two years. I didn't know, I thought that it was ok to do."

Unknown to Lili the three other people in the room were once more completely left stunned at her words. Then Lili continued to speak as she said.

"Although mmm, now that I think of it I did actually sleep with this boy named Art first, but that was just for a single night. But his innocent also, I swear. You see he saw that I was in trouble and simply decided to help me out for a night. He let me sleep for the whole night in his bed next to him, for free.

I'm sorry, I didn't know any of this. I had no idea that sleeping next to boys was not allowed. I tried to learn more of the world, I really did, but I never got the chance to. I have just been working for my entire life, I never got to learn to read or to right. I tried to learn from the signs that I saw in the cities but I just couldn't quite figure it out.

I really tried, I swear, I tried to stay pure and positive throughout it all, but I failed in that as well. I let my emotions get the better of me. But please give me a chance I'm really trying my best to become a more pure person. But of you must punish someone then let it be me. I have not been pure of heart, I'm truly sorry."

Suddenly the womans warm hands wrapped her into a warm hug and Aileen also joined in as the woman then said.

"No, Lili I'm sorry for even asking such a silly question of you. I assure you, you have nothing to be ashamed of. You're most definitely a girl pure of heart and you just proved it."

Just then Lilis crying stopped as she looked to the woman in confusion. Then the woman said.

"Congratulations Lili from now on you're going to be a maid in this castle and not just any maid, but the most special of all maids. I decided you're going to be my son's bed maid. Like so you can stay in this castle for the rest of your life, no more will you be cold or hungry. As my son's bed maid you will be taking care of his every need, you would essentially be his companion for life and also become a part of our family. Then you will be able to have whatever it is that you dream off. Of course I would like to do more for you, but since you are not of nobility then sadly this is the highest position I can gift you. So what do you think Lili, do you want to become my sons bed maid."

Hearing this Lili's eyes suddenly widened. Was being the woman's son's baby sitter the highest position really here? At least that's what being a bed maid sounded like to her, surely that was it and nothing more. But honestly she was too happy to even think of such things, she just couldn't believe it, did she just pass. Was her answer actually satisfactory, even though she wasn't pure? But that didn't really matter now if being a bed maid to the woman's son then there was just one thing left to say.

"Yes, It would be my honour to be your son's bed maid. Whatever your son needs I as her personal bed maid will be sure to provide."

As she said this she noticed that all of a sudden all the people in the room seemed relieved for some reason. And quickly that relief turned into happy smiles and laughs of Joy, but why.